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Funniest post/photo in quite a while ...HAHA

Cactus bass player, who do a fantastic record with J.Beck...
but R.Sheakpear is the good answer

Bill Wyman for Hot Stuff
Paul for White Album
George Harrisson for White Album and Revolver
Klaus Voorman (Plastic ono Band)

Phil Lesh!
Rick Danko

DJ is OK You guys don't like him cause he replaced Bill. You wouldn't accept anybody else in that spot.

add to the above:

Jerry Scheff
Donald 'Duck' Dunn
Adam Clayton
Edgar Meyer
Rob Wasserman
Nick Lowe

Bass is always more felt than listened to, so this is in fact a difficult question. ;-)

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That's so cruel, but I can't stop laughing... :-D

Paul McCartney is simply awesome. Still is. Bill Wyman worked in the Stones, but it's boring with the Rythm Kings to me.

JumpingKentFlash

So what's the criteria for deciding who is the best then? I'm curious.

Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)


Second place: Mike Gordon (Phish)

Bill Black (Elvis)
John Entwistle (Who)
Noel Redding (Hendrix)
Jerry Scheff (Elvis)
Bootsy Collins (James Brown)
to name just a few........

Have we forgotten Geddy Lee????? Rush is an amazing band folks.

Paul Mac-
Bill Wyman
Tom Hamilton

Phil Lesh -----> Hands Down!

Cleveland Eaton

KeefRiffHard81 Wrote:
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> Have we forgotten Geddy Lee????? Rush is an
> amazing band folks.

I have. He is a great bassist and the yare a good band but his voice gets on my nerves no end.

Some of you guys play the bass guitar. I don't.

But I have always found Jeffrey Hammond's playing with Jethro Tull to be great. He was the most self-deprecating as a player. And it seems the majority of the fans took this by the word. His lines to me are not only well written - they stand out in the arrangement and have a "life of their own", let's say from Thick As A Brick onward - but they are always well played, with the perfect swing and sound.

As a guy who got more or less pitchforked into the job from nothing or close, was he told exactly what to play by the other guys in the group?

What do you think of this?

Entwisle
Wyman
Dusty Hill

Les Claypool
Flea
Geddy Lee
Leonard Hubbard

Fine bass playing is an art. I recall that Hendrix used to get so frustrated when he was in the studio in the late Sixties and Noel just wasn't giving it his all. JH would wait until he was gone and do some (but not all) bass parts over.

Macca was great for the Beatles but golly I miss Wyman's bass with the Stones. It was so much part of the Stones sound on some of their best songs, live and recorded. Daryl's quite a solid, often elegant player but does not bring what Bill did to many of the songs the band is playing on tour.

John Entwistle

Jaco Pastorius

Stanley Clarke

Chris Squire

Les Claypool

IMHO, threads like this should NEVER be called "who's the best", but rather "who's your favorite".

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned, but a guy who should be on "the list" is Edgar Meyer, who was part of the trio that produced the marvelous "Appalachia Waltz" and "Appalachian Journey" CDs. The other two were Mark O'Connor and Yo Yo Ma.

bassplayer617 Wrote:
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> IMHO, threads like this should NEVER be called
> "who's the best", but rather "who's your
> favorite".

This thread was made by a certain Beatles-boy. This is a quite good merit of his.

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> IMHO, threads like this should NEVER be called
> "who's the best", but rather "who's your
> favorite".

Preciscely my 4 string friend! Who and what is the best is a subjective term.

To this list Must be added:

Carl Radle, (RIP)

Anyone heard of Ewan Vernal?

Babe Ruth

Phil Lynott knew how to use the four-stringed monster too.

Charles Mingus and Dee Dee Ramone (ultra minimalist)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2006-10-28 22:26 by Leonard Keringer.

NHÖP late Danish bass wizard, jazz school.
(The "o with dots" = Ö would be a Danish one with a slash in it)